I was fascinated by clay when I made my first coiled pot in high school.  Several years later I took classes in a community center in Atlanta where I learned to work on the wheel.  Since that time, I strayed from clay only to be pulled back by the mesmerizing processes involved in making pottery. Over the past ten years my skills have developed primarily by attending workshops and working in my home studio.  The 25 plus years I have spent in the dental industry working with dental porcelains has only served to fuel my interest in the ceramic field.

I enjoy making utilitarian pottery to grace the home for daily use.  My handmade pottery reflects the maker and celebrates the process of creation.  This is in contrast to the products available in the commercialized marketplace today.  I am intrigued by starting with a wheel thrown "part" and adding elements of hand building or other embellishments to make pottery that is unique, one of a kind, work. I work at cone six in an electric kiln with an earthy pallet of glazes on stoneware clay.

A passion that has become a family adventure is working with pit-fired ware.  I fire these pieces in a "box" made from regular house brick, using scraps from my husband's woodworking shop as the fuel.  With a dash of 'this and that' mixed into the pit, the results are never predictable but fun and often stunning.  The anticipation and thrill that comes when you raise the lid on any firing process to reveal the wonders of your efforts is what keeps me making pottery.  I feel that the best is yet to come.

Shows and Awards

• 2003  "Pour Me Another" Clay Alliance Show, Cincinnati, Ohio, Best of Show
• 2002 "Put A Lid On It" Clay Alliance Show, Cincinnati, Ohio, Honorable Mention
• 2000 Middletown Fine Arts Center Fall Show, Middletown, Ohio, Third Place
• 1998 "Six Counties Show" John Michael Kohler Art Center, accepted to show

Affiliations

• 2004 to present; River's Edge Pottery Guild, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, co-founding member, Treasurer
• 2004 to present; Bonney Bank Artisans Guild, Cape Girardeau, Missouri member
• 2002 Clay Alliance, Cincinnati Ohio, editor of newsletter, Clay Chatter
• 2001-2002 Clay Alliance, Cincinnati, Ohio, Board Member

Homespun Pottery
Pam Duncan
1831 Cypress Dr.
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
573-332-8408
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